The Shortest Shadow by Alenka Zupančič

Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two

A close, provocatively interpretive study that mobilizes psychoanalytic and Hegelian resources to read Nietzsche’s thought through the logic of interpersonal division, arguing that the minimal interpersonal gap—the titular “shortest shadow”—reveals how antagonism, dependency, and ambivalence constitute subjectivity and ethical life; through careful readings of philosophical texts the book shows how desire, hate, affirmation, and the impossibility of simple reconciliation are not pathologies to be overcome but the very conditions that produce singular ethical agency and thought.

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